spick and span
adjective
[ spɪk(ə)ndˈspan ]
• neat, clean, and well looked after.
• "my little house is spick and span"
Similar:
neat and tidy,
as neat as a new pin,
orderly,
well ordered,
in (good) order,
well kept,
in apple-pie order,
immaculate,
uncluttered,
straight,
trim,
spruce,
spotless,
as fresh as paint,
tricksy,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘brand new’): from spick and span new, emphatic extension of dialect span new, from Old Norse spán-nýr, from spánn ‘chip’ + nýr ‘new’; spick influenced by Dutch spiksplinternieuw, literally ‘splinter new’.
